In May, a virus in a banner ad on tomshardware.com automatically switched visitors to a Web site that downloaded "malware" -- malicious software designed to attack a computer -- onto the visitor's computer. ScanSafe Inc., one of the first security firms to discover the virus, estimates the banner ad was on the site for at least 24 hours and infected 50,000 to 100,000 computers before Tom's Hardware removed it.

As traffic streams consolidate and ad networks improve in efficiency many people who get marginalized are going to get more insidious in their attempts to make money. This fear will further consolidate web traffic toward trusted brands and place a premium on central ad networks.

it's still happending, reminding me of what happened in the late 90s where the internet is a chaos in china... that's when lots of people started to install firefox as it was promoted as a cleaner/safer way to browse the web... so maybe another ebb for alternative browser? ...switch to mac is tooo much to do , though I don't like WXP particularly...

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